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Because the treasure was found on city property, the foreman of the group digging up the street that warm summer day in 1906, collected the jewelry pieces and promised to turn them over to the police. There is no historical record testifying to the character of this foreman of the dig detail. But, probably being a poor man, perhaps a trifle greedy, he saw a chance to fatten his pocket, and so he sold the treasure that very day to an antique dealer named Mojseyev Zolotnyckyj for a rather large sum of money 200 to 500 czar rubles. Zolotnyckyj kept quiet about his purchase, though the news of this find spread quickly and there was much talk about it. Being crafty and rather wise, the antique dealer kept his counsel and finally approached professor Wolodymyr Antonovych, a noted Ukrainian historian and archeologist at the St. Wolodymyr's University (today it is known as the Taras Shevchenko University) in Kiev. Bearing photographs of the individual pieces of jewelry, Zolotnyckyj offered to sell them to the professor for 30,000 rubles. The professor knew the value of the treasure, but because he wanted to buy it for the University, he priced it at 5 to 6 thousand rubles. This deal offended the business sense of the antique dealer and because the police were close to discovering who had the treasure, Zolotnyckyj packed a suitcase with the jewelry and left the country. Zolotnyckyj and the treasure again came to light in Frankfurt, Germany, where he offered to sell it to the court antique dealer Goldsmith. In the meantime, archeologists and historians in Kiev made a lot of noise about the loss of the find, and sent official notifications to all foreign museums about Zolotnyckyj's illegal snatch. Perhaps because of this the Germen, Goldsmith did not buy the offered goods, and so the crafty antique dealer from Kiev and his stolen cargo seemed to have disappeared forever... Undaunted by the seemingly dead end as far as the Kiev Treasure of 906 was concerned, authorities continued their search. Their perseverence paid of, for in that same year they were notified by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain that several pieces of jewelry, which might have belonged to the Kiev Treasure of 1906 were bought by antique dealer Murray Marks from a sourse in Paris. But, the bureaucratic system being what it was (and is), red tape and all, especially during the times of the czar, the matter was not followed through concisely, but was handled badly and neglect fully. In March of 1907 London again sent the news that Marks sold the treasure, at a profit, to a person "of great influence". Again it seems, a dead end had been reached. Yet for all intents and purposes, this world is run on an orderly basis and found things tend to remain found. Therefore, it took almost a half a century of searching, but it was discovered in 1957 that the person "of great influence" who bought the treasure from Marks was NO GENERATION GAP FOR UNWLA BRANCH 32 The January 21st elections meeting of the UNWLA, Branch 32 let no generation gap stand in its way with the election of a mother-daughter team in the top slots. With Mrs. Mary Rohowsky as President and her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Losowyj, as Vice President, the branch is looking forward to another successful year. Although the branch is based in Irvington, its members are from throughout the neighboring counties. Plans for an annual spring fashion show and winter bazaar will carry through the coming year plus several cultural events and trips. Assisting Mrs. Rohowsky and Mrs. Losowyj as officers are Mrs. Olga Maselko, as Recording Secretary, Mrs. Gail Wislocky as Corresponding Secretary and Mrs. Ann Kalba as Treasurer. R.W. multi-millionaire Pirepont Morgan. Perhaps Mr. Morgan had a fondness for gold, for he sold the silver jewelry of the Kiev Treasure to the British Museum, while the gold pieces he kept for his own collection. The British Museum describes its Kiev Treasure o f 1906 collection to be such: a) 2 silver' discs (used as pendants), b) 10 silver earrings (so called Kiev type), c) 3 silver rings, two of which bear the coat of arms of the Ruryk family, d) 1 wide, silver bracelet, made of silver wire and e) 2 silver coins (hryvny) Kiev type. The huge Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a wing housing the treasures of collector Pirepont Morgan. It is not suprising that among the many treasures amassed by the multi-millionaire during his lifetime, there are many pieces of the elusive Kiev Treasure o f 1906. The museum has the following: 3 pairs of gold pendants, covered with multicolored enamel, which hung from the crown of a princess, from her head to the shoulders; a pair of gold chains interlaced with miniature shields, also decorated with multicolored enamel. The technique of this particular enamel decorating is very difficult and rare but the Kiev jewelers of the XI-XIII century were very proficient in this art form. That is why the Kiev artifacts with this particular enamel finish are treasured pieces of that time. When the Morgan collection was reviewed, other interesting pieces of jewelry were discovered. These were: 3 gold discs or pendants and 2 gold chains with three round shields each, which Morgan bought with a larger collection of antique jewelry. These discs and chains are the remnants of a huge treasure called the A n n e n iw s k y j Treasure found in Kiev in 1842 in the ruins of the Desjatynna Church, built by Wolodymyr The Great in 998 AD. Also, Professor O. Powstenko found many examples of discs and chains, the work of Kiev jewelers, in the Russo-Byzantine Enamel department of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Marta Baczynsky (The above is a loose translation from an article by St. Gela) 26 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ЛЮТИЙ 1975 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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